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The Kerkis Font Family
For LaTeX
version 1.1, 12/Nov/2019
Among other features, Kerkis for LaTeX makes wide use of double forms
for several letters according to the hellenic typographic tradition
that now tends to be lost. In particular the letters beta, zeta, theta,
rho and phi have an initial and a different middle-word form.
Old style numbers (known as lower case numbers as well) are included in
the small caps font. Thus they are accessible with the \textsc or
\scshape command.
The fonts contain a full set of latin characters with accents that
support properly all latin-based languages (common like German, French
etc and less common like Icelandic). Special ligatures for "northern"
languages like ij and fj etc (try the word fiji or fjord) are also
included and tested to work.
Kerkis is especially usefull for the creation of pdf files due to the
fact that the fonts are in Type1 format.
Download
Download the following zip file: Kerkis_for_LaTeX.zip from
http://myria.math.aegean.gr/software/kerkis/Kerkis_for_LaTeX.html
Installation
If you have the previous version of kerkis installed you must first
remove it or overwrite it. To do this or just to install it do the
following steps:
1. Replace or place the type1 files: locate the old files named k.pfb,
ki.pfb, kb.pfb etc and delete them. Place the new files in the same
place you had the old ones probably in texmf/fonts/type1/kerkis or
in this directory (create it!) if you did not had kerkis before.
2. Replace or place the afm files: locate the files k.afm,
ki.afm,kb.afm etc and delete them. Place the new afm files in the
same place you had the old ones probably in texmf/fonts/afm/kerkis
or in this directory (create it!) if you did not had kerkis before.
3. Replace or place the tfm and vf files (k8a.tfm, ek8a.tfm, gk7a.tfm
etc), in texmf/fonts/tfm/kerkis and texmf/fonts/vf/kerkis.
4. Replace or place the old kerkis.sty, .fd files from the tex
subdirectory of the distribution in texmf/tex/latex/kerkis.
5. Replace or place the .enc files from the dvips subdirectory of the
distribution in texmf/dvips/base/kerkis (old ones might be in
texmf/dvips/base/).
6. Place the all html files from the doc subdirectory in
texmf/doc/latex/kerkis.
7. Place the kerkis.map file in texmf/dvips/base/kerkis. If you had
kerkis before edit the file psfonts.map (found in
texmf/dvips/config and/or texmf/dvips/base) and delete all entries
relating to kerkis.
8. Run texhash (on unix) or refresh the filename database (in MikTeX).
9. Find the file updmap.cfg open it in an editor and add the line: Map
kerkis.map
10. Run updmap (on MikTeX I am not sure how to do this. Alternatively
you may append the contents of the file kerkis.map of the
distribution to psfonts.map after step 7 above, refresh the
filename database (step 8) and skip steps 9 and 10).
11. Remove all bitmaps you may have from older kerkis instalations
(remove all .pk files in /var/lib/texmf/pk teTeX (on unix)
texmf-var/fonts/pk in TeXLive and localtexmf\fonts\pk in MikTeX.
You are ready to use the fonts now. Just note the following:
1. Load the kerkis.sty package after you load the inputenc package with
the iso-8859-7 option
2. The -j option of dvips (which is usually the default) may not work
properly with older TeX installations (it works with modern ones).
If you run into such problems with dvips, either turn it off by
issuing dvips -j0 file.dvi or use the bitmap generation utility
gfstopk by issuing dvips -V file.dvi
Stylistic issues
Kerkis is a Neoclassical font. We believe that its strictly
rationalist axis makes it ideal for scientific typesetting.
Moreover its moderate contrast and apperture makes it perfectly
readable. Its serifs are adnate so that it guides your eyes
smoothly on the line.
Kerkis is a calm and quiet face that does not interfere with the
expression of important ideas in your documents.
The latin part of the Kerkis font is URW Bookman (except some
characters that were missing from Bookman). URW has kindly allowed
us to re-distribute their Bookman inside Kerkis.
A. Tsolomitis, atsol at aegean dot gr
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